Our battles aren’t just for our national survival. Our enemies pose moral challenges to humanity, and our struggle is to protect the moral fiber of humanity. This was true in Persia, and it is true ...

Village rabbi Sholem Katzenellenbogen has five children, each of whom is pursuing a different path. His oldest son, Naftali, has left the village to study philosophy in Switzerland. The middle son ...

At the same time, it’s crucial that as adults we pause and acknowledge that the underlying assumptions of Purim resonate ...

Some human beings will always use that freedom for nefarious ends. No miracle, no revelation, not even the most undeniable display of divine power, will erase evil from this world. It remains our miss ...

He wrote many books, including a series called The Rational Bible. I find much in them interesting, but I differ from him because he takes Bible stories literally and is usually convinced that the ...

The eighth weekly biblical portion, Tetzavveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10), deals primarily with the sanctuary, later called temple ...

Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch & Rabbi Eyal SalmanJCC Chabad Jewish Community of Kiev "How can Jewish life be maintained behind bars during wartime?" — This question was at the heart of a special ...

Speaking to Rudaw’s Dilkhwaz Mohammed on Wednesday, Rabbi Yousef Hamra said he had returned to Damascus after 33 years of being forced to leave. “I am the first Jew to return to Syria.

Former Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, was questioned by Israel Police on suspicion of committing an indecent act against a minor under the age of 16 and subsequently released on ...

A leading Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox rabbi has called on Haredi political parties to refrain from participating in Zionist institutions like the Jewish Agency and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish ...

Rabbi Yaakov Medan, head of Har Etzion Yeshiva, responds to the comments by the dean of the Slabodka Yeshiva Rabbi Dov Lando, considered one of the leaders of the non-Hassidic (Litvish) haredi ...